Do you feel safe?

**piperdbh** · 13th January 12, 06:22 PM

I once had a class of 36 ninth-grade girls, Meghan. Now THAT's what I call being torn to shreds!

**Meggers** · 13th January 12, 06:27 PM

Originally Posted by piperdbh

I once had a class of 36 ninth-grade girls, Meghan. Now THAT's what I call being torn to shreds!

Ugh I HATED being that age. Actually, I hated middle school. Around 9th grade, I stopped caring and thats when I made my real friends. lol.

Its seriously amazing how the atmosphere here in this forum is sooo different than in forums where the majority of the members are female. I joined a craft forum for candle makers and stuff and I introduced myself, gave a nice little "nice to meet everyone!" and then asked a few questions about candle making and not a single person welcomed me. All they said was what I was doing wrong with my candle making, half of it in all caps.

I was a very annoyed little candle maker!

**piperdbh** · 13th January 12, 06:29 PM

Weight your wicks and melt your wax in a double boiler.
How's that for a welcome?

**Meggers** · 13th January 12, 06:34 PM

Originally Posted by piperdbh

Weight your wicks and melt your wax in a double boiler.
How's that for a welcome?

NO! I want "nice to meet you/Glad to have you here, etc. etc." and THEN proceed to tell me the info! Theres a certain etiquette, people! They jumped right into the "dont do this and dont do this and you are donig this wrong and blah blah blah"

(and I will have all of them know that my candles are awesome! And YES, I DO use crayons for color! *hands on hips*)

**madmacs** · 13th January 12, 07:27 PM

Originally Posted by MeghanWalker

(and I will have all of them know that my candles are awesome! And YES, I DO use crayons for color! *hands on hips*)

You probably crayon outside the lines too don't you...

**Meggers** · 14th January 12, 05:13 AM

Originally Posted by madmacs

You probably crayon outside the lines too don't you...

I massacre all my crayons and stick them in pools of molten hot candle wax....so NO! If anyone should feel unsafe, it's my crayons.

back on topic: I dont follow every thread here and I tend to stay away from the "fashion" ones (so sorry, men), but thats because I know nothing about kilted mens style do's and don'ts. Maybe thats where the drama is going on?

**madmacs** · 14th January 12, 05:59 AM

Originally Posted by MeghanWalker

I massacre all my crayons and stick them in pools of molten hot candle wax....so NO! If anyone should feel unsafe, it's my crayons.

reminds me of a picture caption i saw... "They laughed at my crayon pictures... I laughed at their chalk outlines..."

**Piipriker** · 14th January 12, 05:32 PM

Originally Posted by MeghanWalker

(and I will have all of them know that my candles are awesome! And YES, I DO use crayons for color! *hands on hips*)

Just like painting straight grain on a tobacco pipe ;-)

Oh, I'm getting OT

**Piipriker** · 14th January 12, 06:10 PM

I've been around the Usenet in the early years of the net. Compared to that XMTS is an island of peace.

I always stuck to: read, read again, think thrice, write, read what you wrote
and hit cancel if you don't find the right words.

As someone said: the problem is the written conversation. We don't see each other. We can't see the facial expression of the writer and react accordingly to it. Unfortunately smilies are a weak substitute.

Though I'm only shortly here, I like it very much, in contrary to our german pipe smokers forums, where sometimes "wars" are going on about filter and non filter, aromatics or not. Many of those guys I know personally and know what is meant, what they write, others I don't and I always kept away from those forums because it was too straining for me. I didn't need that.

But XMTS is another cup of tea. It gets heated sometimes, but there's nothing that can't be solved by clarifications.